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John Seely Brown “JSB” was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation until April 2002, and director of the renowned Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) until June 2000. He served on the board of directors at Amazon for 14 years, and serves or has served on numerous other private and public boards (e.g., Corning, Varian) and on the advisory boards for Li & Fung, Lirio, Telescent, and Quantum Digital Solutions Corporation. JSB has received 11 honorary doctorate degrees in four fields (science, design, public policy, humane letters) and a Ph.D from the University of Michigan. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. JSB has published nine books and well over a hundred papers in scientific journals.